Phrase by 'Louis MacNeice'

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Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  I Am , Hatred , History , Church


I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  Me , I Am , Strength , Humanity


In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  Me , Myself , Stars , Alone


I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  More , Home , I Am , City


A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  Me , Think , Mother , Childhood


I am 33 years old, and what can I have been doing that I still am in a muddle? But everyone else is, too; maybe our muddles are concurrent.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  Everyone , Doing , I Am , Old


When I went to bed as a child, I was told, 'You don't know where you'll wake up.' When I ran in the garden, I was told that running was bad for the heart. Everything had its sinister aspect - milk shrinks the stomach, lemon thins the blood.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  You , Heart , Child , Wake Up


Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  Experience , Men , Sense , Human


The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  I Am , Men , God , Thank God


A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Author: Louis MacNeice - British Poet
  Always , Make , Cannot , Poet


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